The foundry began life as a blacksmith’s forge operated by the Bartlett family in the 1820s. By the 1850s the brass and iron foundry was employing 17 men, turning out tools, agricultural equipment, street furniture and decorative goods.
Walter Stone and Henry Turner took on the foundry in the 1880s. They kept a retail premises in the High Street. WL Bodman took over the business in 1918.
During the Second World War the foundry was operating 24 hours a day, employing 60 people, 13 of them women. In these years the foundry produced over 4000 machine tools, 1800 tons of iron castings, and 300,000 screw bomb nose adaptors.
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